Léon Hennique Novel
Complete Novel 'A Character' & Rare French Literary Translations
Category: “A Character – Introduction”
-
Léon Hennique, portrait after Jeanniot from ‘Un Caractère’ (G. Crès et Cie, Paris, 1923). Originally published by Jean de Palacio in Les Cahiers Naturalistes, No. 71, 1997. . 1850 (4th November) Birth of Hubert Florimond Antoine Léon Hennique at Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe), son of Privat François Agathon Hennique, Major in the First Regiment of Marine Infantry,…
-
Originally published in December 1887 in Les Hommes d’Aujourd’hui, Volume 7, No. 314. Léon Hennique was born on the 4th of November 1851 in Guadeloupe. Of his military origins, his exotic swaddling, his childhood years, his schooling at Juilly, his present existence, I have nothing to say that might kindle the concupiscent appetite for gossip…
-
Originally published by Octave Mirbeau under the title “Manuel du Savoir Écrire” inLe Figaro, 11 May 1889. I was reading the other day a most beautiful book: Un caractère by Monsieur Léon Hennique. It is the story of a gentleman born during the Revolution, dead in our time—a man of proud soul, tender heart, and…
-
TO EDMOND DE GONCOURT A tribute of respectful friendship. L.H.
Léon Hennique Novel 